"'So it was written: the Messiah had to suffer, and on the third day rise from the dead. Then repentance and forgiveness in HIS name would be proclaimed to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. And you are witnesses of these things. And that is why I will send you what MY FATHER promised. So remain in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.'
JESUS led them almost as far as Bethany; then HE lifted up HIS hands and blessed them. And as HE blessed them, HE withdrew, and was taken to heaven. They worshiped HIM, and returned to Jerusalem full of joy; and they were continually in the temple, praising GOD." - Luke 24:46-53
(Repentance and forgiveness. Christian conversion is not passing from one party to another, from one religious group to another: it is a recasting of the person. Persons are part of a society, a world, a history. Therefore the preaching to the nations means also the education of the nations and even international society. This is something that takes longer than ten or a hundred years.)
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